In Praise of Nasty Catholics

As I see it, we are faced by three enemies: the first a recrudescence of Mohamedanism, aggressive, virile, and often undeniably courageous. I have to agree with them about the decadence of the West, but I greatly dread Islam's solution to our ills.

The second enemy is an effete post-Christian West, dedicated to the vain belief that liberalism will prevail and everything will be all right if we are nice enough.

The third enemy is a Catholic hierarchy which has largely forgotten the battles of Lepanto (1571), Vienna (1683), and Warsaw (1920), and, under the cloak of ecumenism, has adopted the second, liberal position, as above.

Remember the Canadian Catholic teacher corrected by a pupil when he said that Jesus was crucified so we could be nice to each other?

It was time for us, years ago, to stop being nice. We should thank God for all the "nasty" Catholics who fought for the survival of our Catholic Faith.

Our betrayal of them over the last 50 years has been shameful.

An Angry Sonnet To A Liberal

You spare the guillotine, the rope, the gun:
You are too busy killing innocent
Babies to punish the cruel unrepent-
Ant criminal. To be liberal is more fun.
To worship Gaia and God knows what more,
To shed your inhibitions, morals, soul,
Easier for you than the uneasy role
Of judge who settles the unsettled score.

You bleat compassion and inclusivness.
Only the weak and innocent you exclude,
Only in punishment you play the prude,
Undeserved mercy is your cruel excess.
You rant about the scourge of priestly abuse
While unborn kids die, choking, in the sluice.

HURRAH ME SOUL, SAYS I. ME SHILLELAGH I LET FLY

Over at The Catholic Whistle, Paul Mallinder's excellent and ever-interesting blog, he speculates about why the Tatchells of this world direct their spleen against the Catholic Church, but say little or nothing about Islam, or Mohammedanism, as we used to call it.

His answer - and I think the right one - is fear.

I prefer 'cowardice'.

Muslims strike back. Catholics don't any more. Why not?

Is this non-violence of Christ and so truly Christian, or Catholic? If it were, I would have to admire it. But I suggest that it is not always from Jesus. He, too, could be violent, as witness the apisode when He drove the money-changers from the Temple.

In fact, most soi-disant liberal Catholics, who are flipsy-flopsy on abortion and contraception, are hard-line against violence whether to people or animals. They don't fight, they don't hunt, but they vociferously support the killing of the unborn.

Why? Because they have married the liberal, sentimental spirit of the age and, as someone said, will soon, thank God, be widowed. They haven't the guts to stand up for the Truth. The approval of liberal windbags is enough for them.

Catholic Europe survived because of people who thought differently. To protect what they loved and believed, they went to war.

Victory at Lepanto, at the Battle of Vienna, on the Vistula in 1920, and in the Second World War was not brought about by passive resistance, but by people who fought, killed, died, and won.

I'm glad that we had Churchill, not Gandhi.

We still, some of us, as Catholics, celebrate Lepanto. But would we follow its example?